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Twelve Japanese elementary-school students gathered at Yoyogi Elementary School in central Tokyo on Saturday, May 10, to play games, cooperate with and learn a little about a similar group of students at an elementary school in Seoul, South Korea via Webcam on the Internet. ...

‘A lot of squinting and counting.’ That is how Dries Durnez, a Belgian graduate student at Doshisha University in Kyoto remembers how he used to look up kanji, those intricate Chinese-based characters that make up a sizable chunk of the Japanese syllabary. “I’d count ...

W ith the current enthusiasm for online networking sites reaching a fever pitch with people flocking to MySpace and, recently, Facebook by the millions — not to mention mixi, which has 8 million users in Japan — it was only a matter of time ...

It is late March, and the crowds are about to descend in droves on the parks and gardens for hanami, or cherry-blossom viewing. Sakura (cherry blossom) is also all over the air waves. Tune in, for example, to the music channels MTV Japan or ...